Item 9 Forty-five basketball players participate in a tournament. Write and solve an equation to find the number x of 3-person teams that they can form. An equation that represents this problem is =45. They can form 3-person teams.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Since forty-five basketball players participated in the tournament and a 3-person team wants to be formed, the equation to find the number x of 3-person teams that they can form will be:

3x = 45

x = 45/3

x = 15

Therefore, 15 3-person team can be formed.

c. 27 units.

step-by-step explanation:

we are told that in circle a, ∠bae ≅ ∠dae.

we can see from our given diagram that in and ;

, as these are radii of our given circle.

therefore, by sas congruence postulate.

hence, side be will be equal to side de as corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent. so we can set an equation to find the value of x as:

now let us substitute x=17 in the expression for the length of be.

therefore, length of be will be 27 units and option c is the correct choice.